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― Onimo (GerryNemo), Wednesday, 14 September 2005 13:27 (twenty years ago)

Cola de Mono (monkey tail), the delicious Chilean holiday drink. Like a White Russian, with pisco instead of vodka.

― Beth Parker (Beth Parker), Wednesday, 14 September 2005 13:30 (twenty years ago)

"On a mission" as applied by my university hallmates to just about bloody everything - going to a 'Megadog', shopping, cleaning the house, replacing bog roll and so on. It's been 10 years since I last saw them and I should be over it, but still - Nnnnng!!!!

― thr (thr), Wednesday, 14 September 2005 13:33 (twenty years ago)

Weeping is a technical cooking term!
-- Casuistry (chri...) (webmail), Yesterday 11:48 PM. (Chris Piuma)

I'm not saying that it's somehow illegitimate. I'm saying that it annoys the shit out of me (see thread title).

― Laura H. (laurah), Wednesday, 14 September 2005 13:52 (twenty years ago)

"I was curious whether..."

"I was curious if..."

"I'm curious whether..."

"I'm curious if..."

Just ask the fucking question, curious george!

― Scrupulous, Wednesday, 14 September 2005 14:49 (twenty years ago)

"unpack" and its variations w/r/t to rewriting music reviews.

― Raymond Cummings (Raymond Cummings), Wednesday, 14 September 2005 14:52 (twenty years ago)

Reminds me of a couple of Blairisms I'd happily never hear again -

"I say to you that..."

"I put it to you that..."

xpost

― Onimo (GerryNemo), Wednesday, 14 September 2005 14:53 (twenty years ago)

I know someone who says "wih-wih-wih".

I've said dub-dub-dub before. I feel a little silly, though.

― jaymc (jaymc), Wednesday, 14 September 2005 14:54 (twenty years ago)

Sc0ut association info at dub dub dub dot dib dib dib dot com

― Onimo (GerryNemo), Wednesday, 14 September 2005 15:00 (twenty years ago)

"unpack" and its variations w/r/t to rewriting music reviews.

On a similar note, the entire fucking liner notes to the Sonic Youth "Daydream Nation" CD.

Curious

Just overheard: "I'm curious if I can ask you some questions. On your website I see [A] and I was curious to know if [B]."

If I was the person on the other end, I would've said, "You're curiosity will never be satisfied if you don't learn to start asking questions!" and hung up.

― Haha, Wednesday, 14 September 2005 15:00 (twenty years ago)

*I* say "dubdubdub." Shall we do it with CONFIDENCE next time?

― roxymuzak (roxymuzak), Wednesday, 14 September 2005 15:01 (twenty years ago)

my friend proposed saying "world wide web" instead of "doubleyoudoubleyoudoubleyou" for www, since it's more accurate and a third the syllables. hasn't caught on, though.

When we first started giving web addresses over the air in the late nineties, my sportstalk show would say "Go to the three double-yews, dot, at ksyg, dot, com..."

David Letterman used to crack me up when spelling URL's.

― Pleasant Plains /// (Pleasant Plains ///), Wednesday, 14 September 2005 15:06 (twenty years ago)

David Dimbleby used to frequently stumble over the full url of Question Time, now he says something like "Go to the bbc-web-site-slash-Question-Time" which I like, as it assumes knowledge. Sometimes he doesn't even bother with that and just says "it's on the screen now~~and I don't care if you're blind~~."

― Onimo (GerryNemo), Wednesday, 14 September 2005 15:43 (twenty years ago)

FRIGHTENED NOW.

http://static.sky.com/images/pictures/1261700.jpg

― suzy (suzy), Wednesday, 14 September 2005 15:49 (twenty years ago)

WTF IS THAT

― roxymuzak (roxymuzak), Wednesday, 14 September 2005 15:51 (twenty years ago)

I was going to put it on PC gone mad but it is poshandbecks as maryandjoseph. HURL.

― suzy (suzy), Wednesday, 14 September 2005 15:55 (twenty years ago)

That exhibit also had George Bush as a wiseman. HA.

― Pleasant Plains /// (Pleasant Plains ///), Wednesday, 14 September 2005 16:01 (twenty years ago)

"nookie"

"troubadour"

NNNNGGGGGRRRRGRGHHH! NO, NO, NO, NO, NO!

i know someone who says "dub dub dub"

she is from seattle

― emsk ( emsk), Wednesday, 14 September 2005 17:01 (twenty years ago)

just follow Chubb Rock's lead:"w, w, i'm the shit dot com".

― oops (Oops), Wednesday, 14 September 2005 21:59 (twenty years ago)

When people are trying to describe their racial tolerance, and they say "I don't care if the person is white or black or yellow or orange or green or purple!"

Look. There is no race of people on Planet Earth that can be simply described as "green". Please shut the fuck up.

...or polka-dotted! Yes, ha ha. Now, SHUT THE FUCK UP.

― Pleasant Plains /// (Pleasant Plains ///), Saturday, 17 September 2005 06:01 (twenty years ago)

i know someone who says "dub dub dub"

i know someone who says "wubbily wubbily wubbily". they also call their mobile phone their "mobidilly diddly". as annoying as this sounds i find it quite endearing.

― angle of dateh (angle of dateh), Saturday, 17 September 2005 09:19 (twenty years ago)

Is their surname Flanders? Otherwise, they should be punched.

― Martin Skidmore (Martin Skidmore), Saturday, 17 September 2005 09:26 (twenty years ago)

curiously, they're able to deliver it with a patina of irony, every time.

― angle of dateh (angle of dateh), Saturday, 17 September 2005 09:29 (twenty years ago)

I hate when people say "the proof is in the pudding".

I will kill them all, and my life will improve considerably as a result.

― accentmonkey (accentmonkey), Saturday, 17 September 2005 10:23 (twenty years ago)

You should kill them with a knife, leave your fingerprints on it, then hide the knife inside a pudding.

― estela (estela), Saturday, 17 September 2005 10:27 (twenty years ago)

Right now I really don't like "ciao!" No, I have always cringed at it. But people say it all the time here - I thought we were supposed to be speaking French - "ciao" is not French! It just seems more flip and "cool" than necessary. I should just go to Italy and see what happens: tolerance, acceptance or freak-out.

― rrrobyn (rrrobyn), Saturday, 17 September 2005 11:54 (twenty years ago)

"good to go"

― s/c (Jody Beth Rosen), Saturday, 17 September 2005 13:52 (twenty years ago)

not quite as offensive, but: "you're all set"

― s/c (Jody Beth Rosen), Saturday, 17 September 2005 14:13 (twenty years ago)

I should just go to Italy and see what happens: tolerance, acceptance or freak-out.

For me, the fact that they answer the phone by saying "pronto" more than makes up for it.

― accentmonkey (accentmonkey), Saturday, 17 September 2005 17:19 (twenty years ago)

gtg

― Tracer Hand (tracerhand), Saturday, 17 September 2005 18:39 (twenty years ago)

Maybe it's just around here, but when did "Can I Get ________?" become the standard way of placing an order at a restaurant? Was it before of after Jay-Z had that song?

― naus (Robert T), Sunday, 18 September 2005 05:18 (twenty years ago)

"I'm [semi-celebrity spokesperson] to talk to you about [product]."

Really? He's Donald Trump for the sole purpose of telling me about this Visa check card? If it weren't for that, he'd be a Senegalese greengrocer?

― nabisco (nabisco), Tuesday, 20 September 2005 19:56 (twenty years ago)

Accent, it's actually supposed to be "the proof of a pudding is in the eating". Which makes a lot of sense, if you think about it, certainly more than the mis-abbreviated form.

Sorry if this has been covered, I took a quick look & didn't see.

― Laurel (Laurel), Tuesday, 20 September 2005 20:08 (twenty years ago)

Maybe it's just around here, but when did "Can I Get ________?" become the standard way of placing an order at a restaurant?

I find I do this sometimes . I'm fairly sure I did it before the Jay-Z song! Sometimes the server will call attention to the construction by saying something like "You sure can!" or "Absolutely!" -- at which point I feel a very brief moment of awkward self-consciousness which then dissolves into a longer moment of cheery satisfaction at their response.

― jaymc (jaymc), Tuesday, 20 September 2005 20:34 (twenty years ago)

I noticed it when I first went to America in the '80s, so it predates Jay-Z. It seemed widespread then.

― Martin Skidmore (Martin Skidmore), Tuesday, 20 September 2005 20:38 (twenty years ago)

It's totally commonplace — has been as far back as I can remember.

― Rock Hardy (Rock Hardy), Tuesday, 20 September 2005 20:45 (twenty years ago)

Rereading my post, I sound like Nicholson Baker.

― jaymc (jaymc), Tuesday, 20 September 2005 20:50 (twenty years ago)

THANKS MUCH

― Thea (Thea), Tuesday, 20 September 2005 20:51 (twenty years ago)

John I've noticed you often have a Baker-esque tone, even just in conversation. I like it.

― n/a (Nick A.), Tuesday, 20 September 2005 20:52 (twenty years ago)

Question: why do people have a problem with the usage "I could care less about"?

― lee ward (lee ward), Wednesday, 21 September 2005 03:47 (twenty years ago)

Because it means the opposite of what you think it means. The proper expression is actually "I COULDN'T care less," meaning, I'm so uninterested, that I couldn't care any less. Saying "I could care less" is like saying "Well, I could be less interested in this than I am," and it's hard to imagine an occassion for saying such a thing.

― Hurting (Hurting), Wednesday, 21 September 2005 03:49 (twenty years ago)

Because it implies that there is another level of caring that you can reach but you're too lazy to take the final step.

XPOST

― The Ghost of Black Elegance (Dan Perry), Wednesday, 21 September 2005 03:50 (twenty years ago)

Yes, if you take only the literal words, and ignore the standard phrasing (the verbal cognate of a rolling-of-the-eyes), which acknowledges that the elimination of the negation is ironic, and not intended to change the meaning.

― gabbneb (gabbneb), Wednesday, 21 September 2005 04:52 (twenty years ago)

i don't know if i made clear above that the smug insider-ism of potus is what makes it great

― gabbneb (gabbneb), Wednesday, 21 September 2005 04:53 (twenty years ago)

"i could care less" is a contraction of a contraction

― gabbneb (gabbneb), Wednesday, 21 September 2005 04:54 (twenty years ago)

"BRING ME THE HEAD OF ALFREDO GARCIA" "MEDIUM RARE"

― Tracer Hand (tracerhand), Wednesday, 21 September 2005 04:56 (twenty years ago)

xpost Sorry, I don't buy that. I think it's just a bastardization of a common idiom. The sarcasm is already implied in the original phrase (since you don't literally mean you couldn't care one bit less)

― Hurting (Hurting), Wednesday, 21 September 2005 04:57 (twenty years ago)

the contractions are getting closer.. xxpost

― jimmy glass (electricsound), Wednesday, 21 September 2005 04:58 (twenty years ago)

Maybe eventually it'll get all the way down to "I care less," and then it'll mean the right thing again.

― nabiscothingy, Wednesday, 21 September 2005 05:07 (twenty years ago)

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